Shortbread

Ingredients:	8oz Plain Flour
	2 oz Corn Flour
	2 oz Rice Flour
	4 oz butter
	2 oz margarine
	4oz Caster sugar

What you do:

1. Wash your hands.

2. Sieve the flours together into a bowl.

3. Stir in the sugar.

4. Cut the fats into the flour mix until in small lumps.

5. Dip your hands, palms up, into the mix and lift some of the mixture on your fingers and at the same time rubbing your thumbs across your finger tips. This lets you to coat the flour with the fat and to make crumbs.

6. When all the mixture is like crumbs, carefully bring it together into a ball. Do not over squeeze as the fat will melt and the shortbread will be tough and hard.

7. Turn the ball onto a floured surface and gently pat out to about ½ cm thick.

8. Dip the cutter into the flour and cut out rounds and place on the baking sheet, not too close together as they will spread in the oven.

9. Bake in the oven until golden brown.

10. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with sugar while still hot. Allow to cool and then transfer onto the cooling rack with a fish slice.

Note: Nice to serve with the Cranachan!